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there is a fatality, a feeling so irresistible and inevitable that it has the force of doom, which almost invariably compels human beings to linger around and haunt, ghost-like, the spot where some great and marked event has given the color to their lifetime; and still the more irresistibly, the darker the tinge that saddens it.

“I drew the into my heart, into its innermost chamber, and sought to warm thee by the warmth which thy presence made there!”

“In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endured by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it.”